While hanging out around the Cascade gardens in Banff, we noticed some odd things happening to some of the flowers. Don’t get me wrong, a picturesque garden with a glacier backdrop is pretty amazing, but the flowers themselves had something to say!
Just… use a bit of your imagination
When researching the host site for blogs, I looked into the issue of being blocked, and found that WordPress.org was allowed in most places! It even has a Chinese version of the site, so I’m like “Sweet! I can use it in China.”. Then, once arriving in Shanghai, I fired up my laptop with a bunch of things I wanted to write about, just to find that….. http://www.WordPress.COM is blocked. W T F?
For those of you who don’t know, WordPress.com is the watered-down version of WordPress.ORG. That’s like, letting your 7year old play with guns but not allowing it to read Harry Potter.
This is what I think of your blocks.
I figured a way out, and got mobile internet! You know that feeling, when your internet is down and you get highly irritated even though once your internet recovers, you don’t use it anyways? Thats how it was for me…… for 5 days….
Time to say farewell to the Rockies! You were cool….
Some RANDOM lake on the side of Hwy1
Now we took a couple hour drive back into Beautiful British Columbia and into the city of Vernon. Here’s the final leg of our trip out west, and we wrapped it up by doing nothing and staying in the Okanagan Valley, the Niagara of BC (or is Niagara the Okanagan of Ontario?). We got a forest cabin, which compared to our previous stays in HI-Lake Louise and HI-Jasper, made everything look extra luxurious!
We had Pho Fusion, which had surprisingly good pho in a stripmall, and waitresses that were dressed like they were working Earl’s? Strange, but good pho is good pho! There’s not much to “see” in Vernon, but a relaxing stay is definitely good to have!
This was a day off, taking a quick stroll around Jasper town and watching the Euro 2012 semi-final against Portgal and Spain at the Jasper Brewing Company. There weren’t many football fans in the area, but the atmosphere was still pretty good, and so were the beers! Jasper is a really neat town, and it’s less commercialized and developed but provides a place for you to keep in touch with nature a lot more compared to Banff. Continue reading
The day started at 4:10am, as we wanted to reach Lake Louise to catch the infamous sunrise. Weather hasn’t been with us, as we’ve stayed two days in Moraine Lake waiting for sunset, but the clouds just won’t give way! It was a frosty 5C, and it was already bright out by 4:30am. Sunrise is expected at 5:39am, but we thought we’d be early than later! Soo…. we waited for about an hour waiting for the sun to rise.
On a side note: Moraine Lake, located in the same park as Lake Louise, actually has a nicer view! The water is pristine, and it is surrounded by mountains on three sides!
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Join us as we set sail around South America 